NOUN | cognition | wisdom | accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment |
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attribute | wisdom, wiseness | the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight | |
cognition | wisdom, sapience | ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight | |
attribute | wisdom, wiseness, soundness | the quality of being prudent and sensible | |
communication | Wisdom, Wisdom of Solomon | an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation / meditation on wisdom / wisdom |
Sounds | wih'zdahm | |
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Rhymes | abolitionism ... zirconium: 557 rhymes with ahm... |
Meaning | accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment. | |
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Narrower | reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity | wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound |
Broader | content, cognitive content, mental object | The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned |
Spanish | sabiduría | |
Catalan | saviesa |
Meaning | The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight. | |
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Synonym | wiseness | |
Narrower | discretion, discernment | The trait of judging wisely and objectively |
judiciousness, sagacity, sagaciousness | The trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating | |
knowledgeability, knowledgeableness, initiation | wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | |
statesmanship, statecraft, diplomacy | wisdom in the management of public affairs | |
Broader | trait | A distinguishing feature of your personal nature |
Opposite | folly, foolishness, unwiseness | The trait of acting stupidly or rashly |
Spanish | juicio, sabiduría, sensatez, seso | |
Catalan | cervell, judici, saviesa, sensatesa, seny |
Meaning | ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight. | |
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Synonym | sapience | |
Narrower | astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness | The intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas |
sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment | The mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations | |
Broader | know-how | The (technical) knowledge and skill required to do something |
Spanish | sabiduría, sapiencia | |
Catalan | saviesa |
Meaning | The quality of being prudent and sensible. | |
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Synonyms | wiseness, soundness | |
Narrower | advisability | The quality of being advisable |
reasonableness | goodness of reason and judgment | |
Broader | good, goodness | That which is pleasing or valuable or useful / useful |
Opposite | unsoundness | not mentally or physically healthy |
Spanish | solidez, validez | |
Catalan | validesa |
Meaning | An Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation / meditation on wisdom / wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC. | |
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Synonym | Wisdom of Solomon | |
Instance of | book | A major division of a long written composition |
Part of | Apocrypha | 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible |
sapiential book, wisdom book, wisdom literature | Any of the biblical books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus) that are considered to contain wisdom |
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